5) Refusing to Scale | Sunni Brown
05/24/16 • 29 min
This interview was originally published on February 09, 2015, as HTE 058: Refusing to Scale (and Being Kind to Others)
During this conversation, you will begin to understand entrepreneurship as a creative venture. Sunni Brown is smart, funny, and her energy is contagious.
This all makes for an insightful and exciting conversation that moves from the Pet Rock, to calculus, and onto Sunni’s refusal to scale her business — and what you can learn from her decision.
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Today’s guest is an amazing entrepreneur, artist, and awesome human. She is the founder of SB Ink, a creative consultancy and an agent of social change.
She is the author and leader of a global campaign for visual literacy called The Doodle Revolution.
My guest has worked with companies like Disney, Sharpie, Zappos and SXSW. Using common sense, experience, and neuroscience, she is proving that to doodle is to ignite your whole mind—and she aims to teach the world how to master “strategic doodling” in her latest book, The Doodle Revolution.
This was a brilliant and hilarious conversation and I am so glad to share it with you.
Now, let’s hack...
Sunni Brown.
What you will learn in this episode:- Why you should allow yourself to come up with goofy ideas
- Entrepreneurism does not have to be risky
- Sunni Brown could have never been the inventor of the Pet Rock
- Why Sunni is terrible at calculus and how this makes her awesome
This interview was originally published on February 09, 2015, as HTE 058: Refusing to Scale (and Being Kind to Others)
During this conversation, you will begin to understand entrepreneurship as a creative venture. Sunni Brown is smart, funny, and her energy is contagious.
This all makes for an insightful and exciting conversation that moves from the Pet Rock, to calculus, and onto Sunni’s refusal to scale her business — and what you can learn from her decision.
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Today’s guest is an amazing entrepreneur, artist, and awesome human. She is the founder of SB Ink, a creative consultancy and an agent of social change.
She is the author and leader of a global campaign for visual literacy called The Doodle Revolution.
My guest has worked with companies like Disney, Sharpie, Zappos and SXSW. Using common sense, experience, and neuroscience, she is proving that to doodle is to ignite your whole mind—and she aims to teach the world how to master “strategic doodling” in her latest book, The Doodle Revolution.
This was a brilliant and hilarious conversation and I am so glad to share it with you.
Now, let’s hack...
Sunni Brown.
What you will learn in this episode:- Why you should allow yourself to come up with goofy ideas
- Entrepreneurism does not have to be risky
- Sunni Brown could have never been the inventor of the Pet Rock
- Why Sunni is terrible at calculus and how this makes her awesome
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4) We All Start As Employees | Brian Tracy
This interview was originally published on July 27, 2015, as HTE 202: We All Start As Employees | Brian Tracy.
Sometimes I interview people don't know before researching, a few I've heard a lot about, and other times I have been following their work for many, many years -- this episode is part of the latter.
Brian Tracy is the author of more than 70 books, many of them bestsellers. There are six of his books, with notes and highlighter marks throughout, on my office shelf.
Brian Tracy is a very smart entrepreneur and the insights he shares in this interview will change the way you look at business and employment.
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My guest today is one of the top professional business speakers in the world. He is the author of more than 70 books — many of them bestsellers. There are six of his books, with notes and highlighter marks throughout, on my office shelf.
He is the chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations.
His goal is to help you achieve your personal and business goals faster and easier than you ever imagined.
He has consulted for more than 1,000 companies and addressed more than 5,000,000 people in 5,000 talks and seminars throughout the US, Canada, and 55 other countries worldwide.
As a Keynote speaker and seminar leader, he addresses more than 250,000 people each year.
Now, let’s hack...
Brian Tracy.
In this 43-minute episode Brian Tracy and I discuss:
- The Key is to Get It 80% Right and Run It Up the Flag Pole
- Seek opportunities to help other people
- How to know if you have what it takes to be successful
- Why 80% right is better than perfect
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6) How to Develop Partnerships | Brian Clark
This interview was originally published on February 11, 2015, as HTE 059: Partnerships and the Creativity of Limitations | Brian Clark
This conversation revolved around three essential elements of entrepreneurship: creativity, partnerships, and becoming the CEO of your company (even if you are a one person company).
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When I originally sat down to outline the idea for Hack The Entrepreneur, I immediately wrote out a short list of people that I wanted to interview. I used this list as one of my metrics for success and I am happy to say that today’s guest is number two on that list.
To me, the idea that one person could start a blog, not sell anything for 18 months, and turn that blog into an 8-figure media company is endlessly fascinating.
He is a former lawyer, serial entrepreneur, writer, and creator.
In January of 2006, my guest started a one-man blog called Copyblogger. Copyblogger is now an 8-figure per year media company called Copyblogger Media, of which he is the founder and CEO.
He has ranked among the top in the world for social media and content marketing. He's been featured in countless books about business and media, and he has graced many stages. N
ow, let’s hack...
Brian Clark.
What you will learn in this episode:- Brian’s unique vision of productivity and why it works
- How to be wrong and adapting in real time
- How focusing on your one important task each day can enable you to get more done
- Allowing your mindset to accept the fact that you can do anything
- How Copyblogger Media was created in a mere three hours
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